MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Police Chief Erin Gibbons is making it clear to the public that there are no Flock camera systems in the city
Erin Gibbons
“I just don’t understand the association between the camera systems that we use and Flock, a data base that’s particular to screening any individual that comes through town, that’s not what our camera systems do,” Gibbons said last week on WEPM Radio’s Panhandle Live.
Flock cameras have generated a lot of discussion around the state including in

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Public Service Commission has denied a request by developers of the MARL transmission line and the PSC staff to modify the schedule for consideration of the line that is proposed to pass through four West Virginia counties.
“The circumstances presented do not justify extending the existing procedural schedule,” the PSC said in its decision posted late Friday afternoon.
The evidentiary hearing on the project before the PSC will stay at its original Oct. 26 start

BUCKHANNON, W.Va.  — Jawbone Park, damaged in the July 21 flood in Buckhannon, reopens this weekend with a national sweepstakes for a newly renovated home in the city.
Colin Reger
Mission Appalachia will host a house giveaway on Labor Day at Jaw Bone Park beginning at 1p.m.
Mission Appalachia’s Colin Reger said it’s an opportunity to help a historic neighborhood in Buckhannon and help someone achieve the dream of home ownership at a time when increasing costs make it difficult, if not

MANNINGTON, W.Va.— Annual Labor Day traditions return to Marion County and all throughout the Mountain State this weekend.
The Marion County AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), and Marion County Democrats will join forces once again this year for a Labor Day celebration and picnic Sunday afternoon to kick off a two-day slate of union-sponsored activities in West Virginia.
The picnic is planned for noon until 4 p.m. at Hough Park in Mannington Sunday.
Marion County AFL-CIO

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Fifty-one of the state’s 55 counties are under a severe thunderstorm watch from the National Weather Service until 9 p.m. Friday.
Friday’s weather watches and warnings. (NWS graphic)
The atmosphere has been heating up all week with afternoon highs in the 90s since last weekend. ‘
Heavy thunderstorms were moving west to east across the U.S. Route 50, I-79 corridor at around 3 p.m.
There were separate storms hitting Charleston and points south.
Every county in the state is

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Traffic was slow-moving on I-77 in Charleston Friday afternoon after a multi-vehicle crash.
The wreck happened in the northbound lanes at around 2 p.m. in the curve of the interstate just west of the Leon Sullivan Way exit.
It appears at least a tractor-trailer and passenger vehicle were involved in the crash that has closed two of three northbound lanes.
Traffic was backed up heading into Charleston past the state capitol at 2:30 p.m. Motorists trying to avoid back-up got

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — You may find Charleston Deputy Police Chief Tony Hazelett floating in the middle of the Greenbrier River in the next couple of days.
Tony Hazelett
And who could blame him.
Hazelett retired Friday after 27 years with the Charleston Police Department.
The Huntington area native was hired by the CPD in 1999. In 2002 he went to the department’s Detective Bureau where he spent 10 years. He was promoted to sergeant and worked the road and then former Chief Steve Cooper moved him to